masturbation

So without any further ado, I am a 17 year old, and have been constantly masturbating and watching porn for 5 years. I have excessive pmo addiction, and in these 5 years I had been doing it every day (well atleast 4 to 5 days a week continuously for 5 years) and didn't try nofap seriously, not...

Going through the breakup of a three-year relationship made me relapse and act out the worst aspects of my sexual addiction. The addiction was definitely one of the main reasons behind the end of the relationship, and that fact (along with some others related to this situation) hasn’t fully hit...

I am not a native English speaker so if I have any bad grammar pls understand! So yeah I am a 17 year old "kid", struggling to get rid of this excessive pmo addiction, or to be specific, I am not even trying! I am so fully aware that I am getting ruined, physically, mentally and whatever, but...

So I'm 25 and I first masturbated probably my Freshman year of high school. I had gotten erections all the time leading up to it but every time I would attempt masturbation, I never got to the point of ejaculation. Once I finally successfully did it, it became an addiction that took over me for...

I quit porn at the beginning of 2025. I want to have sex and masturbate. I can't get aroused for either without thinking about pornographic images. I find that there is no other option than to think about porn if I can't watch it. I don't know how to learn or practice getting aroused and I don't...

Hey everybody, I'm a guy, I'm 23 years old. My life was relatively good until marijuana and frequent masturbation came into my life. From the age of 17 to 22, I smoked marijuana heavily, almost every day. I also masturbated intermittently, several times a day. I ate bad, junk food, played...

I'll let you in on a little secret. I like to stick my pen up my ass and masturbate while doing so. It's awful. Basically, it's a drug for me. I stimulate the prostate.

Hello. Since November 27th- December 7th, I was sober, no PMO. During those 10 days, I woked up same time, took cold showers, exercised some days, journal writing, and most importantly used positive powerful affirmations to attack my negatives thoughts. It was working. Based on my activity...

Hi, I've had discussion with my friend, which has elevated alcohol consumption. He's drinking several times a week. He said the only way how he can be sober for several weeks is to combine it with nofap, but after relapse he comes back to alcohol as well. Any thoughts how it can be related?

Hey all. I've recently done well on nofap and would like to ask about the benefits of solely abstaining from masturbation (not that I'm going that path). What are the benefits from just abstaining from masturbation? Have you guys got any?

This has gradually developed over some years after viewing porn for decades. When with a real woman, usually a prostitute, I experience ED - erectile disfunction. But with porn I seldom have ED and can ejaculate. Is this common? I'm an older man just over 70, and have read that sex, and by...

I smoke when I visit some places near our town. I never smoke in my home or my home area. I want to quit that too. I keep watching women when I smoke and fantasizing about their body parts and smoke a cigarette or two sometimes keep staring at women and thinking negatively about their bodies...

hi i am at 10 days, i want to reach 60-90 days of hardmode, and then go back to sex and masturbation without porn, i also thought that a good way to understand if i could go back to sexual activities was to see how i would feel after a wet dream, since i always feel terribly after ejaculating...

Note: This is a discussion for masturbation addicts who are currently majoring in Comp Sci/IT in college and masturbation addicts who used to major in Comp Sci/IT in college while being addicted to masturbation. I am 27-years-old. I entered college in 2014. My major was IT (The reason why I...

Hello, I have done it to get away from porn, but also masturbation. Now in the recent weeks, I have heard from many people and Social-Media, how bad it is, to not masturbate. Is it true? Should I stop my streak? I am feeling very good since stopping, but now I am feared of developing some...

I am new to this community but my goal is same as you all present here I want to be free from this never ending addiction of porn and masturbation I have tried before in the past but I was unable to stop this addiction so I herd about this community from my friends and thought of giving it a...

Hello all, I'm an addict in recovery and engaged to be married. I have been free from porn for 3+ years thanks to NoFap. There has been improvement in my masturbation habits as well - less frequent and less compulsive. I have been working with a very supportive AP and we have determined that I...

↑ This tread is about Mantak Chia Taohist 'sexual healing' techniques combined with pornography, how this is a dreadful combination. Please let me know what you think. ¨Out of interest, how did these techniques fuck you up?¨ My response to your question is very late I'm sorry. About the...

Hey all. I've been doing nofap for a very long time and I only felt nofap benefits in my early honeymoon phase of reboot. But as of recently and for a while I've literally seen no benefits. In fact it seems that I'm worse than I was as a pmo addict in many areas. I get mad anxiety around women...

Yeah title sums up, but I will give some detail here. So I was jerking it since I was like 9 or 10, from there I did it daily, nowdays I do it daily multiple times. I'm straight but I have been desensitized from it and moved onto fetishes like vore and stuff, but now I came up to a weird...

Guys I've been abstinent of Pornography for a very long time but I've been feeling horrible every time I MO. And I MO about between 1-3 weeks. Basically I feel horrible and I not only feel horrible for the coming days but I feel horrible until about two weeks. I don't know if its POIS or...

Question for those with experience in this. I've been in recovery for years (with moderate success) and the time has come to try vi*gra or c*alis to help with reaching and maintaining full erection during intercourse. I still get rock hard morning wood, but during intimacy, I could use some...

Hello Fapstronauts, I am 35 yo, I have a wife and two beautiful children, yet I still struggle with M. I've discovered M "by accident" as a 6yo and a strong addiction was developped. Since then I've never been abstaint from M for a longer time. I've been for a long time on a therapy that helped...

Hi everyone, I am not even sure where I should start from, so I guess I'll just start from the very beginning and let my thoughts guide my fingers over the keyboard (WARNING: is going to be a long post, maybe not even a cool one, but I really need to do this). To give you a broad idea of how...

Hey all. I just wanted to let you guys know that I'm no longer addicted to P. It's been over a year since I haven't watched it and I have no urge to do so. But one thing that's really been bothering me is my MO habits. A lot of the people here would say that MO without P is fine, but I've...

I have a lot of friends that watch porn and they all agree that it is harmful. However, they seem less affected by it. After talking more with them, I found out that our habits were very different. They usually use porn as a physical release and masturbate while watching it. For me, it's really...

Hi guys, porn has made me anxious, and consequently made me insecure about myself, I haven't had a sexual partner yet, I'm afraid I won't last long when it comes to having sex with my partner, because when it comes to masturbation I don't last long, I mean, If I take breaks, yes, but...

Hello there, im new to this forum. I normaly speak german, but the german part oft this forum is pretty dead, so i want to try it here in the english speaking section. I think to understand my situation, i have to tell some things from the past. Last year my gf and i broke up. it wasnt easy...

What is p/m/o is as good as it gets? My life is such a mess, especially for my age, that the only time I feel any pleasure at all is when I p/m/o. Sad, I know. I can abstain but I often find myself wondering why I even try. It's almost as if I think things can't and won't get better, like I...

Well Guys. I made it past the 90 day mark and I liked the benefits I’ve gotten from this so I said why not. Let’s keep this streak going. For a little back story I was exposed to porn at 11 years old (currently 23) It became over a decade long addiction. My longest streak was in 2017 when I went...

Just curious, I suffer from PIED and currently in the process of doing a reboot and keeping the porn to zero and only masturbated once this month currently on day 25 streak which I'm very impressed with and know I'm not going to break it as I'm proper committed and am not suffering due to poor...

Here I am after 60 days! I have changed a lot in the past 60 days, I have to admit... Sometimes the anniversaries are very good because otherwise, you can't realize how much you have done without spending some time looking back! I have only one goal in my mind: healing from PIED, All other...

For starters, I suffered from a masturbation addiction due to a natural fetish and not porn. Just thought I should clarify this before saying what I need to say. Holy crap, I have masturbated to this fetish so much since I was 13. Did prone masturbation and all that good stuff. Sometimes I did...

Last night, I was getting off work at 11pm. I arrived home at 12am in the morning night. The plan was to go for a run and then perform some pushups. Instead, I felt this familiar feeling appear. It was anger, frustration and emotionally pissed. This feeling came from Tuesday afternoon-on my...

Even after 3 days of no masturbation I still don't enjoy it anymore. I can get properly hard and the erection stays as long as I want but I just can't seem to enjoy the masturbation itself the slightest bit. More of a chore if anything. What's wrong?

Greetings I'm 21, college student and currently trying NoFap PMO in ordrer to cure my erectile disfunction. I started NO pmo in order to cure my mood, harm caused by masturbation overall... But as i naturally increase my exercice these secundary effects completely faded away to the point that i...

I'm starting nofap again. I want to bring my life on track and even achieve more.

This Happens Sometimes When I Masturbate I Get A Terrible Painful Burning Sensation That Usually Lasts For An Hour Or Two I Also Have A Feeling Of Having To Pee Too On-top Of The Painful Burning Sensation.

Can you explain the difference between a lapse (you masturbate once or maybe twice and then get straight back to abstinence) and a complete relapse (where you masturbate again for a week or more, loose your track completely) in terms of what preconditions lead to which outcome?

We all hope that we never relapse. But it happens. When I relapsed, I often regretted it already while doing it. I feel so helpless about this. If I start masturbation I cannot stop it anymore. If having sex with a partner I'm most of the times able to stop before I get an orgasm. Why does it...

I have been quiting porn for almost 2 years and a half. I have mostly succeded but I still reset from time to time because of mastubation. So I decided to quit masturbating as well. This was in the beginning of the last summer. I have reached a maximum of 15 days without masturbating but I don't...

i got some books today and i feel like i need to devote myself to them for a few weeks/months so as to break the habit of PMO. i need to replace the bad habit with something constructive that helps me grow and feel better about myself too. I'll have to devote enough time and be consistent with...

Hi guys, I'm 37, I have a satisfying sex life but nonetheless I'm addicted to masturbation (not to porn, I occasionally use it but I can live without it with no problems). Normally, I masturbate every day, often twice a day. I have always known that compulsive masturbation is a way for me to...

Today I'm on day 14 and i'm feeling more energized and present. The before days was very eazy to not watch porn or masturbate, because I've blocked all the ways, on my cellphone and pc, that I could acess porn, since day 1. So my brain knows that there is no way to watch porn, getting easier to...

I used to binge up to 5-7 times a day on a regular basis. I got fever from that. It is really hard to find info on that but it makes sense because all the good nutrients that come from your life and are supposed to create another life, is being drained over and over again. I actually feel...

I tried many times to quit porn and masturbations but never succeed , I am in position masturbating daily some time 2 time a day and worried

All my life i've had issues with excessive masturbation. In childhood, I had severe sexual, emotional and physical abuse by my father(luckily there is a no contact form set by court) and i havent seen him since i was 6. I don't know whats wrong with me. I did it alot at school(middle of class...

I decided to investigate this site. Been struggling with P&M since puberty. I've been a recovered alcoholic in AA for many years. Trying to apply what I learned in AA to P&M addiction. I quit once for 90 days. Thought the clouds would part but they didn't and so I gave in. Coming to the end of...

Im not addicted to amature porn or any pornstars videos but now im suffering from the fantasies that creates from the hotwife porn. That they show themselves as couples and shoot there activities. Is that shoot and sex is real ?? and these couples are real ??

Hello everyone, My name is Richard and I am 26 yrs old and I am single. I decided to join because I believe I have an addiction to PMO. I started masturbating since I was about 12 yrs old and I started watching porn since I was about 15 yrs old. I obviously didn’t see it as a problem when I was...

Hi Community, I am a 31 years old guy who is not new to this space, like many of us. And just as many of us, I underestimated how deeply an addiction can take root in your body and your mind. In fact, I had already joined this priceless forum a few years ago, when the feeling of having hit...

I am 30 and maybe last 15 years I have been doing masturbation. Last 6 months I have been trying hard to stop this shit. I fail and I try again. Now it's 30 days I am away from it. The problem is due to excessive masturbation my penis skin is damaged. Though I am 30 years but now it (my penis)...

Hello I am 17 and started masturbating last year when I was 16. Ever since I started masturbating I have gotten some sleeping issues: -Nightmares every night since I started masturbating -Constantly waking from sleep after couple of hours of sleep -Difficulty falling asleep -Sometimes I sleep...

One of the symptoms I have gotten ever since I started PMO a year ago when I was 16(now I'm 17) was Chronic fatigue and worse sleep and feeling tired no matter how much I sleep. I have also noticed another thing which happens to me sometimes, I would sometimes wake up after going to sleep and...

Hi, I am 26 year old male with a 12 year masturbation history. Masturbation and porn have ruined my life and I cannot enjoy sex as I am suffering from retarted/delayed ejaculation. My penis only has orgasm when I masturbate and not during sex. What can I do to improve this? I went to the doctor...

On a quest to do better for myself and my family, I'm making some big changes in my life. I'm moving back to a place I once called home. Also, I'm furthering my education and skillset so that I can start to do better financially. There's a lot of uncertainty for me right now. I usually...

Has anyone been diagnosed with POTS? Does anyone suspect they may be dealing with it? Symptoms: Severe and/or long-lasting fatigue Lightheadedness with prolonged sitting or standing Brain fog: trouble focusing, remembering or paying attention Forceful heartbeats or heart palpitations (a...

Do you ever wonder why 95-99% of search results regarding [the detrimental effects of] PMO bring up a seemingly endless amount of pages on which there are articles and "research" that support and promote the porn industry, the act of masturbation and regular orgasms? These pages are usually on...

How Stuff Works: What happens in the brain during an orgasm? An archived page is provided as the article was removed years ago. In both [men and women], the brain region behind the left eye, called the lateral orbitofrontal cortex, shuts down during orgasm. Janniko R. Georgiadis, one of the...

Hi, I have been masturbating in my home for many years. Now I live with Wife, Stepson, and another person, all adults-- but I need to quit masturbating at my computer in the office where there's no door and people have to walk through to get to the kitchen. This is ridiculous, I know. So far...

From the time of Hippocrates to just before Freud's Sexual Revolution, physicians had much different opinions on PMO than those of clueless shills in medicine today. NEURASTHENIA is, according to Merriam-Webster, "a condition that is characterized especially by physical and mental exhaustion...

At 2:05 in the above video clip, a patient is seen by an Asian doctor. He is told that if he doesn't quit masturbating and conquer his addiction, he will experience "tooth ache, loose teeth, back pain, weak knees, exhaustion, depression, psychological disorders, impotence and erectile...

Hello everyone. I am 32yo currently at day 12 not using porn and day 28 semen retention. I absolutely can't sleep, I am going crazy, the ONLY thing that puts me to sleep is taking Zolpidem (benzo), everything else have been done already, nothing works. Should I masturbate without porn? Maybe I would...

Hi again everyone I am starting a new challenge and I am on my second day off PMO. The challenge is to stay away from PMO for April, starting now. Feel free to join, advice, and support! I will write daily. Day 1 completed

Hello, community! I've been with this challenge for two weeks now. No porn and no masturbation. It's been difficult but yet I feel I can reach a couple of weeks more without them (especially porn. Tho, I would like your opinion about this. I have two very specific problems with porno: erectile...

I am trying nofap for 7 months and even after that I am failing. I have once able to do nofap for 8 days, but after that I am not able to do that for more than 2 days. I am trying whatever I can to not reset/relapse, not to objectify any woman, but it seems like all the efforts are in vain...

I know about the relationship between porn and dopamine, but what is the relationship between masturbation and dopamine? Can masturbation by itself become a problematic form of dopamine craving / release in the same vein as pornography can?

I have PIED but every morning I wake up with intense morning wood, which is either caused by me waking up because I dreamt about women or I woke up and immediately started thinking about women because of the morning wood. What happens with my PIED recovery if I don’t watch porn but still...

Hey all, I have just joined this forum. I am glad I can talk openly about my porn and masturbation addiction here among people facing a similar problem. I have been watching porn since the age of 14 (28 right now). I was watching porn and masturbating once everyday. I had never thought something...

Title. What if I stop watching porn but continue to masturbate using my imagination?

What to do when you've tried everything and nothing worked? It's been many years since I've tried without ever being able to abstain from addiction. I can guarantee that I have tried everything I thought would work and even what would not work and now? What am I supposed to do? I humbly ask...

Newbie here- not to porn, but to this site. As far as porn, I have watched it all kinds. I am tired of it, I wanted to start 2022 without porn and I failed so here it is 19 days in to the new year. I am ashamed and embarrassed. I have a family, wife & kids. What I do behind closed doors is awful...

Hi, I hope everyone is doing well and i wish every pmo addict to recover, I'm 19 years old, I struggled with Premature Ejaculation since i was 14. It was weird at that time for me because that's when i first time orgasmed in my whole life. I didn't knew what masturbation was at that time as the...

Damn this is a good feeling walking into day 14. Why? Because after this I am in whole new territory. Yes I have been able to develop long streaks 30 plus one 40 plus days but its been well over a year. Let me just say I left my addiction in 2021. 2022 Is going to be the year I defeat this...

I've promised myself that if I relapse this November, I'll need to think differently on this whole NoFap thing. I've been trying to reach 90 days for one year and eight months now, yet couldn't pass one month clean. I've asked myself how come? I meditate, try to keep myself busy, seeing a...

I have been masturbating for about 10 years every day, and sometimes more. For several years now, I have been extremely tired (chronic fatigue). I have taken a lot of blood tests, and my ferritin level is very high ~1300-1500. I don't have any disease like hemochromatosis or etc. So I wanted to...

So yes, I have beaten HOCD. Porn escalation. All that shit. However regular porn and death grip is the final hurdle, and if I can beat HOCD, I can beat this too. I have an issue with my penis that is really messing with my head, and I'm not even sure if it is a huge deal or not. I've death...

I suffer from DE and Death Grip and I never realized how bad this actually is for me and my SO. I'm currently starting my first reboot with no PM for 90 days, after 10 years of PMOing and having at most 1 week breaks when I started dating my SO. Does masturbation ever feel normal or OK after...

my question right now is "what are my motivations to do nofap ???" i know i don't want porn (because it makes me feel disconnected from the real world). as far as masturbation is concerned, i don't know. the last times i had an urge to masturbate i did not care, and just went with my feelings...

Hi everyone Im just introducing myself here, for anyone who is willing to read this. I am a 20 year old male, about to head into my final year of college next month. i've been using porn since I was probably 13. my porn tastes are quite vanilla and haven't escalated to anything extreme, however...

Who ever knew that something that started as sweet and pleasuring, could be so deadly and degenerating. Masturbation is the number 1 destroyer of our generation. It's the reason men are loosing their value and their rightful place as men, to the women, because all that would have made you an...

Masturbation is the number one destroyer of men in this generation. It starts out as sweet and pleasurable, but is truly just a silent killer. A man will never reach his true potential, or his full manly prowess, if he is nurturing this habit. There are too many ways masturbation drains you, and...

This may be a slightly long read but it’s because i want to let you know all the details as I’m in DIRE NEED for HELP. So I’m a brown guy around 22, Pretty muscular and a handsome dude. I’ve never had any issues flirting with and picking up girls. In fact they’ve even admitted to me that I was...

Have you ever been tired of failing over and over again with overcome this addiction? These urges are killing me! I have been watching mast., porn and hookers over 10 years. I have been reduced doing all that activity. What I mean being sick of tired of being tired is putting all the effort to...

Greetings fellow members of the NoFap journey! I have been doing NoFap for one year and three months now with one relapse half a year ago. I have experienced no benefits (or at least I do not feel them) and only the contrary. The only exception might be that I can brag to friends about my...

To begin with, I have several questions, because I have several problems. I have been masturbating almost every day for 8 years now. Normally once a day and in more extreme cases 3 times. Since I was 10 years old. I wanted to know if this can cause a huge loss of energy? A loss of...

Hi, I read the book NO MORE MR. NICE GUY! by Dr. Robert Glover. Therein he states that people having difficulty in real sex can start feeling their masculine power and start controlling it by conducting "Healthy Masturbation". This type of masturbation aims the man to feel all his hormonal...

99.9 Percent Guaranteed Treatment of Spermatorrhea caused by masturbation. If you are very week and thin and can't increase you weight, sexually you can't satisfy yourself and your partner then you are in the condition of spermatorrhea. Main 2 indications you caught in spermatorrhea are: Eyes...

Current streak: 408 days no PMO, semen retention What is an urge and what causes it? The urge is a mental and physical tension build up in a streak caused by an excess of sexual energy that is not balanced meaning in men an excess of male energy with a lack of female energy to balance it up so...

Current streak: 407 days no PMO, semen retention Clarification : usually I advice to do this practice if you already have high amounts of energy and some type of reboot and self control or at least 150 days streak, otherwise this practice can make you relapse or drain the little sexual energy...

It was never a dream of mine to become an "expert" on PMO but after years of failed attempts and relapses, I think I have valuable information to share about my recovery. Like many of you, I've tried every possible method ie; hard mode, light mode and everything in-between to combat my...

Dear friends, I wanted to share my experience to add another success story to the database. Why? Because reading the success stories helped me tremendously while I was on my recovery path not to indulge my desires and wank :p Sorry for the long post here is a potato? In short, I'm 28 yo gay...

Hi, I want to ask you a few questions about NoFap. I am on 28. day of hardmode and I am starting to wonder whether total abstinence has any negative influence on the organism? 1) Every living beeing has sexual needs, which should be satisfied. When we trying to fight with them, are we making...

Hi, guys today is 32 day of my reboot on hard mood. Wish me luck. The problem is i have an enlarged prostate and if i did the rectal examination to myself in right way i can say it's so enlarged. And i went to doctor who said these signs are signs of enlargement with examination,but he told me...

Hello everyone. I successfully went about a year and a half without PMO only to find that when I tried to have sex with my girlfriend I had erectile dysfunction and premature ejaculation. I'm trying to avoid having sex right now for a variety of reasons but I noticed that when I started to...

Counter: 371 days no PMO semen retention There was a point in my journey where simply I made click and after that day PMO, casual sex or choosing the wrong girl was no longer a problem. I can be in front of the most beautiful girl or a cute girl can text me but if she has a low vibration she...

Mine was Friday, it was the end of the week so no more training, studying or work so I kind of let my guard down on fridays. That was my relapse day do you have one?

Hello everyone! How you doing? I've started seeing a psychologist two weeks ago in order to fix my problematic sexual behaviour once and for all. After we've talked about some morality issues of porn and masturbation. We've agreed that I can allow myself to masturbate once a week without porn or...